Cast Gallery catalogue number: B035

Kore.
The inscription on the left side of her skirt reads:
Nikandre dedicated me to the far-shooter of arrows, the excellent daughter of Deinodikes of Naxos, sister of Deinomenes, wife of Phraxos n[ow?]
Nikandre was almost certainly a priestess. Far-shooter of arrows refers to the god Apollo.
One of her hands survives (not shown in the cast) and is pierced by a drill hole, perhaps to hold the lead for a lion.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.90m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is a Greek original of about 640-630 BC.
  • was found in the Sanctuary of Artemis on Delos in 1878.
  • is now in Athens, National Museum, 1.